“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover

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“I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom – how great is that?” – Soledad O’Brien

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“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” – Adlai Stevenson

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“True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” – Brigham Young

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“Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” – Stephen Covey

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“Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.” – Drew Houston

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“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison

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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill

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“There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.” – James Larkin

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“Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.” – Patrick Henry

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” – Nelson Mandela

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“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

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“Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” – Friedrich Schiller

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“Freedom is never given; it is won.” – A. Philip Randolph

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” – Ronald Reagan

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell

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“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” – Soren Kierkegaard

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“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.” – Robert Kiyosaki

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“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.” – Suze Orman

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“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.” – Pope John Paul II

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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud

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“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.” – Malcolm X

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“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” – Malcolm X

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“Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.” – Alan Dershowitz

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“Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.” – Prince

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“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.” – Walter Cronkite

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“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.” – John Milton

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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” – Justice Louis Brandeis